There are insufficient super soft ( \sim 0.1 keV ) X-ray sources in either spiral or elliptical galaxies to account for the rate of explosion of Type Ia supernovae in either the single degenerate or the double degenerate scenarios .
We quantify the amount of circumstellar matter that would be required to suppress the soft X-ray flux by yielding a column density in excess of 10 ^ { 23 } cm ^ { -2 } .
We summarize evidence that appropriate quantities of matter are extant in SN Ia and in recurrent novae that may be supernova precursors .
The obscuring matter is likely to have a large , but not complete , covering factor and to be substantially non-spherically symmetric .
Assuming that much of the absorbed X-ray flux is re-radiated as black-body radiation in the UV , we estimate that \lesssim 100 sources might be detectable in the GALEX all sky survey .